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Before selecting framework guidance, read and apply Using FPF and its DPF Suites. This instruction applies to project work, framework development, review and coordination. It explains how to find and read relevant content in the publications available to you, including when an interface cannot retrieve a large file.

When an AI agent assists you, put this requirement and the instruction’s location in your project’s AGENTS.md or equivalent instructions. If a reading test explicitly limits its reader to an isolated excerpt, use only the materials supplied for that test; do not add USING-FPF.md unless the test includes it.

Use FPF as a reference model and pattern language, not as a linear textbook. Start from the working question you bring from your project. Bring in internal FPF terms only after they help you keep the work precise.

You can ask an assisting agent to explain an answer or give feedback in ordinary language, without FPF terminology. For example: “Explain this and comment on my proposal without FPF jargon; use the language of my work.” The patterns can guide the reasoning while the answer uses familiar words.

This readme is a thin public practical-use rendering of FPF for engineers, researchers, managers, reviewers, and AI-assisted project workers deciding what FPF can help them do now. It foregrounds the project questions most likely to pay off and deliberately coarsens, omits, or defers the full pattern language, source publications, source-use history, and relation structure. When a claim becomes important, use the Preface and Table of Contents as locators, then inspect the exact definition, constraint, test, method, evidence rule, or assurance rule needed for that claim in the cited pattern body; do not treat this readme as the specification.

Begin with the project object at stake and the current question about it. In FPF, a holon is an object whose actual construction supports treatment as a whole with parts and as a possible part of a larger whole. Examples, when they meet the conditions in A.1, include a machine, product, organization-as-system, body of knowledge, publication system, work occurrence, discipline, AI-agent arrangement, method, or local framework.

Bare claim-bearing role has no single FPF referent. Start with E.10.ROLE, then continue through the object or relation it recovers. If the recovered wording is a claim-bearing function use, apply A.6.F and its selected subject pattern. Do not choose a branch from the trigger word alone. Once the object and question are named, ask which structure, claim, decision, evidence, description, Work, or improvement relation is current.